Old headstamp

[dieselrealtor]

Sorting some 45acp & found this;

 

[johntheplinker]

Neat. Early production, too!

 

[Oro]

My grandfather engineered ammunition trains from that plant through most of WWII, after it was converted.

That’s pretty cool

 

[Slow Hand]

I’m used to seeing EC in steel cases. Neat to see a brass one!

 

[dieselrealtor]

From the small amount of looking I did, it appears they only did brass 1 year, 43-45 were steel

 

[snorko]

Bullets by the Billions was a short book written on the wartime plant. Ian from Forgotten Weapons did a short review: https://www.forgottenweapons.com/book-review-bullets-by-the-billion/

I appraised the plant some years ago. The then owner had a bunch of memorabilia.

 

[Squid556]

Does anybody here collect headstamps? I've been for a few years. Kinda fun finding the old stuff and learning where it came from. I've got some pics if I can remember to take later.

 

[rhslover]

I was going to toss a 30-06 case I had due to a cracked neck, had a date of 1908 on it.

 

[Reale1741]

I've got a few rounds of it laying around... All Evansville dated 1943 and 1944. Surprisingly, this stuff still shoots like new!

 

[Aszerigan]

I've got a few rounds of it laying around... All Evansville dated 1943 and 1944. Surprisingly, this stuff still shoots like new!

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That's some neat stuff right there !